Sweetness: Dry

Grapes: Merlot

Grape info: Merlot’s soft, attractive fruitiness have seen it transplanted to almost every wine-growing country in the world. Approachable, with more mellow tannins than its traditional blending partners, Merlot tends towards flavours of plum jam, cherries and an occasionally herbaceous note.

About: Founded over a century ago, Viña La Rosa is located in one of Chile’s most exciting wine regions in the Cachapoal Valley: Peumo. Today, the traditions of its founders inspire a sustainable approach to viticulture and continue to inform a terroir-based mindset where respect for the environment is paramount.

During fermentation, open pump-overs are made to enhance fruitiness, at a controlled temperature of 24-27°C, over 7-10 days. The pressed wine is kept separate. Part of this blend undergoes micro-oxygenation. Complete malolactic fermentation.

Tasting note: Aromas of red cherries, violets and plums on the nose. Medium-bodied with lithe tannins and hints of bay leaf and cocoa.

Character: Cherry, plum, bay leaf.